Red Sorghum

Directed by Zhang Yimou

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Cast

Gong Li

Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Yu

Teng Rujun

Uncle Luohan

LJ

Liu Ji

Jiu'er's Son

QM

Qian Ming

Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua

Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

ZY

Zhang Yuxiang

ZG

Zhou Guiyun

YQ

Yang Qianbin

XG

Xu Guoqing

Yao Er-ga

Li Yusheng

Palanquin Porter

DK

Dong Kun

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